| Description |
xiv, 306 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 30 cm |
| Contents |
Foreword / Barry Bergdoll -- Prologue. Unlikely convergences -- A site and an architect for Seagram -- Mies van der Rohe's Ur-Building -- Richard Pare : plaza studies, 2000 and 2010 -- Union of building and plaza in the urban landscape -- Light : Philip Johnson's Stimmung -- Architecture and art allied -- Ironies in public life of architecture : regulation and the modern metropolis -- Sustaining architectural culture -- Epilogue. Changing hands Appendixes. 1. Phyllis Lambert to Samuel Bronfman, June 28, 1954 ; 2. Seagram Plaza installations and Seagram Gallery exhibitions -- 3. Some conservation issues as remembered by Arvid Klein and Tom Stetz of Pasanella + Klein |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 254-294) and index |
| Subject |
Mies van der Rohe, Ludwig, 1886-1969.
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Johnson, Philip, 1906-2005.
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Bronfman, Samuel, 1891-1971.
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Lambert, Phyllis.
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Seagram Building (New York, N.Y.)
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Office buildings -- New York (State) -- New York -- Design and construction.
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Skyscrapers -- New York (State) -- New York -- Design and construction.
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Tall buildings -- New York (State) -- New York -- Design and construction.
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| Author |
Bergdoll, Barry.
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| ISBN |
0300167679 |
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9780300167672 |
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